belatedness

Example Sentences

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Yet you come upon them with a feeling of belatedness — as if you somehow missed the revelry and are left to survey the morning’s detritus in solitude.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

But the cost of belatedness is real for her too: Every time we spoke, she was “muerta,” “despilada,” “exhausta,” run ragged by relentless institutional demands.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Rommel is all too aware of the belatedness of his efforts, and the fact that time is running out.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017

The crowds reflect the belatedness of this museum, the long decades during it ought to have existed but did not.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2016

My wretchedness was heightened by the effect of this lonely Amen, whose belatedness he accentuated by the fervent manner in which he breathed it out.

From A Marriage at Sea by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)